Excellent thread Shambles! It won't fill up like the silly "YANK BASHING" ones or the "Folk-Fantasy sagas", but it may just have a longer "shelf-life". It's certainly got me thinking about "folk-club experiences", good and bad.

I think the key is often the folk or folks who run the place. Clubs tend to reflect the personality of their administrators. From a personal point of view however, I prefer the ones' that don't exclusively "specialize". You know what I mean? The ones where ONLY one type of folk music is implicitly welcome. 'Course, the ideal (for me) would be four or five of 'em in a row...one for trad ballads, one for instrumental sessions, one for singer-songwriters, one for bluegrass, one for acoustic blues, one for old time string music.......ooops! I'm describing "folk UTOPIA" aren't I? Oh while I'm doing my own fantasizing, they'd all be open (and have entertainment) from 12 noon to the wee hours!

Rana is right. We are blessed with some really good ones here in Ontario. Wish they were closer together.

Hmmmm, there's a topic fer ya Roger..."Folk Utopia".

Rick